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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean aside from the anecdotal evidence from 35 years of being the son of a professional dance costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical), and brother of another professional ballet costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical)? And both have worked with a variety of very large and notable dance companies across the western US? Or about 17 years now observing the gender imbalance in dance schools that my sist…
>> You mean aside from the anecdotal evidence from 35 years of being the son of a professional dance costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical), and brother of another professional ballet costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical)? And both have worked with a variety of very large and notable dance companies across the western US? Or about 17 years now observing the gender imbalance in dance schools that my s…
I got standoffish after I said "in the States" twice in my initial explanation of the colloquialism. You apparently missed both, and yet you insisted that the "correct" way to express it was (as you later revealed) more adherent to your understanding of British English. And I don't even concede that point either.
It would be, at a minimum, abrasive if I, as a person who does not speak Greek, tried to insist that you must speak Greek in a way that better fits my conception of how your language works.
Your other examples don't really compare, since there is not extra connotation to "motorist" or "cyclist" or "leisure maker" (although in the states, we might say "vacationer" instead). The best examples I can think of are "arborist" or "forester" vs "someone cutting down a tree", or "trucker" (as in, person who drives a truck/lorry professionally) vs "person currently driving a truck/lorry".
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that it isn’t as easily verifiable that it is privacy-respecting without the source code but that’s a couple steps from saying that it is “a falsehood” to say it is. What made me wonder about it is that this is very specific wording that indicates that they proactively know the author is lying, when it would be very easy to instead say something along the lines of what you said, that it is too hard to verify…
I agree that the language used wasn’t perfect, but… If a claim is not verifiable, it can only be taken on faith. Same as all the existing apps in the category that this one aims to replace. Is there a better word we can use to describe this sort of situation?
I can’t think of one specific word to swap out for “falsehood,” it would be better to just replace the whole phrase. Various things have been bounced around here in the discussion. I’d go with something like “without the source code, unfortunately that can’t be verified.” This is a better phrase all around. It describes the actual problem. And it isn’t unnecessarily accusatory.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#224Great idea, especially since many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities. One thing though: I know it's popular in these apps to show the cycle as a "clock face", but if you think about it, this is a weird representation, because of the variations in cycle lengths (of natural cycles not changed by contraceptive hormones). So, if one cycle is 26 days long an…
Yeah - you are right. But I like it that I can see how many days are left - even if it's not 100% correct and I get stuck at "5 minutes before 12" because then I see that it can appear every time. Maybe I'll add an option for another representation... something like the commit graph in github (don't know the name...) That would be nice too. To compare the cycle length there is an extra statistic section. I want to ad…
Do you mean the contributions-in-the-last-year block at the bottom of your user profile? I can see that being a good alternative to the monthly clockface, because it's broken out by weeks and not months. Color intensity might be useful when you get around to tracking things like mood.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities Many no longer have a choice as to whether to turn their data over to law enforcement who may use it to deny lifesaving medical care. (Florida briefly tried to make reporting periods mandatory for student athletes, too, but that fortunately failed)
In my opinion if you're running something like this in a location where you might be forced to share the data for such malicious purposes with law enforcement then it should be your responsibility to (re-)design the app to provide users with a local-only option for data such that there's then nothing personal on the servers to be requested by law enforcement.
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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#226Great idea, especially since many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities. One thing though: I know it's popular in these apps to show the cycle as a "clock face", but if you think about it, this is a weird representation, because of the variations in cycle lengths (of natural cycles not changed by contraceptive hormones). So, if one cycle is 26 days long an…
Cycle makes a ton of sense to me, because it is a cycle. The issue of lack of exact ability to predict will be an issue no matter what, because the whole point of this app is to help you predict when your next period will start. It doesn't matter if that's displayed as a countdown, or as a calendar, or what. But perhaps one way to alleviate the "5 minutes to midnight" issue is to have the entire section between, say,…
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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah - you are right. But I like it that I can see how many days are left - even if it's not 100% correct and I get stuck at "5 minutes before 12" because then I see that it can appear every time. Maybe I'll add an option for another representation... something like the commit graph in github (don't know the name...) That would be nice too. To compare the cycle length there is an extra statistic section. I want to ad…
Do you mean the contributions-in-the-last-year block at the bottom of your user profile? I can see that being a good alternative to the monthly clockface, because it's broken out by weeks and not months. Color intensity might be useful when you get around to tracking things like mood.
Yes, thats what i meant. I will definetly Play around with that idea..
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> You mean aside from the anecdotal evidence from 35 years of being the son of a professional dance costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical), and brother of another professional ballet costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical)? And both have worked with a variety of very large and notable dance companies across the western US? Or about 17 years now observing the gender imbalance in dance schools that my s…
I got standoffish after I said "in the States" twice in my initial explanation of the colloquialism. You apparently missed both, and yet you insisted that the "correct" way to express it was (as you later revealed) more adherent to your understanding of British English. And I don't even concede that point either. It would be, at a minimum, abrasive if I, as a person who does not speak Greek, tried to insist that you…
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Just wanted to say thanks for the thoughtful and thorough way you’ve handled all of this. I would’ve done a worse job. Because you assume bad faith.
Quite the opposite. I know you had good intentions. You were here to correct a misconception, and you’re fighting the good fight against people being wrong on the internet. But in the process, you left no room whatsoever for nuance. You treated it like someone said 2+2=5 without even pausing to think that maybe your own experience isn’t representative. The whole point of the thread is that our experiences aren’t repr…
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